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As CityBeat did in the 2007 and 2009 election cycles, we've once again sent a questionnaire to the non-incumbent Cincinnati City Council candidates to get their reactions on a broad range of issues.
Nine of the 14 non-incumbents chose to answer our questions. Others either didn't respond or couldn't meet the deadline.
During the next few weeks, we will print the responses from the non-incumbents to a different topic each time.
Today's question is, "With the city facing a potential $33 million deficit next year, what specific cuts and/or revenue enhancements would you propose or support to eliminate the shortfall?"
Many Cincinnati residents got a glossy flyer in the mail this week informing them of a public meeting about a possible change in their water service.
City officials will hold a hearing July 28 to solicit public input about a proposal to switch the Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) from a city-managed department into a public regional water district.
While the presidential candidates prepared for Wednesday's debate, Michelle Obama urged Cincinnatians on Tuesday to take advantage of the first day of early voting, before leading a group to the board of elections to cast their ballots.
"I've got news for you: Here in Ohio it's already Election Day. Early voting starts today," Obama told a crowd of 6,800 inside the Duke Energy Convention Center. She urged everyone to reach out and encourage their friends to vote after they had cast their own ballots.
"Twitter them. Tweet them. What do you do? It's tweeting, right? Tweet them," she joked to the crowd.
Earlier in the morning, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney kicked off its "Commit to Mitt Early Vote Express" statewide bus tour in downtown Cincinnati.
The tour started in Hamilton County before moving through Butler County and is scheduled to end the day in Preble County.
The bus is scheduled to make its way through every region of Ohio during the early voting period and will serve as a mobile campaign headquarters, dispensing voter contact materials and featuring Romney campaign surrogates, according to a news release.
At the convention center, Michelle Obama avoided some of the direct attacks employed by her husband or the Romney campaign, but used her 30-minute speech to counter some of the criticisms from the GOP nominee, recapping some of her convention speech.
"Our families weren't asking for much," Michelle said of her own and Barack's families. "They didn't begrudge anyone else's success, you know, they didn't mind if others had much more than they did, in fact they admired it. That's why they pushed us to succeed."
Her comment seemed to come in response to an attack that the Romney campaign levied against Barack Obama after his infamous "you didn't build that" comment, where the GOP candidate argues that Obama and Democrats are fostering enmity among the middle class by stoking jealousy of rich, successful Americans like Mitt Romney.
"Our families believed also that when you work hard and have done well and finally walk through that doorway of opportunity, you don't slam it shut behind you," Michelle Obama continued.
"No, you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. You see, that's how Barack and I and so many of you were raised. … We learned that the truth matters – you don't take shortcuts, you don't game the system, you don't play by your own set of rules."
She went on to say that Americans are part of something bigger than themselves and obligated to give back to others, counter to the Republicans' narrative of the individual pulled up by his or her own bootstraps.
Danielle Henderson, 40, a teacher's assistant from Cincinnati, said she was a fan of the first lady's and joked that she wanted to know if Michelle was running for president in 2016.
"Behind every good man is a good woman," Henderson said. "Honestly, a woman is a backbone of the family."
She said she thought the first family was a good model for the rest of the country.
Henderson's mother-in-law Barbara joked that she was excited to see what the first lady was going to wear.
"I see trends she sets trickle down to other politicians' wives," she joked.
Three activists associated with The Cincinnati Beacon blog have lodged a formal complaint with the city's attorneys today, alleging some City Council members "behaved secretly and in contradiction of the charter" during a recent budget dispute.
Also, other critics are researching whether the council members' action violated state law.
Occupy Cincinnati has changed the location of its first-scheduled occupation, which will take place 11 a.m. Saturday at Lytle Park rather than Sawyer Point, due to a previously scheduled event. (The Revolutionaries are respectful of other organizations' fundraising walks.) The occupation has no scheduled end time. Several unions in New York City have endorsed the protest and plan to join it today. Here's a live stream of Day 19 in NYC.
One week after the major Democratic victories of Election Day, Ohio's Republican legislators are pushing HB 298, a bill that will keep federal funds from Planned Parenthood. In a Health and Aging Committee hearing at today, Ohio Republicans voted to push the bill through committee and into the Ohio House of Representatives floor.
If the bill passes the Republican-controlled General Assembly and is signed by Gov. John Kasich, it will block $2 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and prioritize other family services. In the past few years, Planned Parenthood has become a popular target for Republicans because the organization provides abortion services. But that's not all Planned Parenthood offers; a chart released by the organization in February demonstrated abortions only make up 3 percent of its services.
Another criticism leveled by Planned Parenthood supporters is the federal funding is legally barred from being used for abortions. Instead, the funding would go to other health services within Planned Parenthood, which provides general women's health services to poor and rural women.
Some Democratic lawmakers say the bill shows an out-of-touch Republican Party."For the life of me, I cannot understand why Republicans are so intent on taking away from women the right to make their own choices about their bodies," said Ohio Sen. Nina Turner in a statement. "Voters soundly rejected the foolishness of the radical right on Election Day in favor of the dignity of American women, but some lawmakers must not have heard."
She added, "While Republicans rail against women making their own choices, they are cutting funding for education and critical social services that children need after they are born. They want small government, all right — small enough to fit into a woman's womb."
The strong words showcase what was a loud, feisty exchange
between Planned Parenthood supporters and Republican lawmakers. At the
committee hearings, supporters and opponents of HB 298 testified. Some
opponents cited their personal experience, including an emotional account from one
woman regarding her own rape at age 13. She said she was glad young women like her can turn to
Planned Parenthood for help.
Ohio Rep. John Carney, a Columbus Democrat, pointed out that throughout the hearings, no health care provider testified in favor of HB 298. One doctor testified against the bill. Carney also pointed out that no tax dollars that go to Planned Parenthood pay for abortions.
The bill isn't the only action Republicans have recently taken against women's health rights. Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus told The Cincinnati Enquirer about the possibility of a renewed heartbeat bill on Nov. 8. In October, Kasich appointed two anti-abortion advocates to government positions. In this week's news commentary ("Ohio Republicans Continue Anti-Abortion Agenda," issue of Nov. 14), CityBeat covered the ensuing Republican campaign against abortion rights.
• HuffingtonPost.com quickly repeated this potential calumny: "Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The (New York) Post has learned. Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital."
About the same time, Massachusetts and Boston officials were telling journalists they had no suspects.
I recall how authorities initially sought someone who looked like an Arab after the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed in 1995. How do I know? It was all over the news media. As the current FBI website puts it, "Coming on the heels of the (first) World Trade Center bombing in New York two years earlier, the media and many Americans immediately assumed that the attack was the handiwork of Middle Eastern terrorists."
Two white non-Arab Americans were convicted of the bombing. The only "Arab" link was murderer Timothy McVeigh's military service in the first Iraq invasion, Desert Storm, where he won a Bronze Star. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists continued to weave elaborate links between the Oklahoma City bombers and Arabs.
• Everyone with a microphone seems to be telling us the investigation of the Boston bombings will be complex and unhurried. Many recall how long it took to abandon suspicion of security guard Richard Jewell as the Atlanta Olympics bomber. It took two years to identify Eric Rudolph as the bomber and another five to arrest him. False leads will abound and forensic evidence will be sought, collected and analyzed. Some will be helpful, some will be misleading. With so many journalists present, initial coverage largely was self-correcting. The rumor of seven more bombs or a bomb at the JFK library was quickly spiked. The story that local officials blew up a third bomb lasted a little longer. That was half-correct: They blew up a package/backpack but it was not a bomb. There were only two bombs as of this writing.
Everyone with a microphone seems to be saying the Boston bombing investigation will be complex and unhurried. Many recall how long it took to abandon suspicion of security guard Richard Jewell as the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bomber. False leads will abound and forensic evidence will be sought, collected and analyzed. Some will be helpful, some will be misleading.
• If bombers hoped to create terror, the Boston Marathon was a smart choice: there would be lots of images from cell phones and the news media. It fits my theory of 9/11: the initial 2001 attack on the World Trade Center tower was timed to assure the news media would get full coverage of the jetliner flying into the second tower.
• Moving on from bloodshed, Rachel Richardson's Enquirer story about dogs in the workplace was a smart story, especially part about socialization being vital to a dog fitting in.
And she pushed my nostalgia button. My first job out of college was night editing a daily paper in Italy. I bought a Belgian Shepherd (Groenendael) pup and named him Loki for the Norse trickster. His mother was a part-wolf/mountain shepherd's companion and father was an Italian ex-Army K9. With long, silky black coat, a plume of a tail, alert eyes and ears, Loki was an unbeatable chick magnet.
His socialization comprised strolling Rome, riding and waiting in my car, joining me in bars and restaurants, and lying under my desk at the Rome Daily American at night when I was the only journalist. I didn't know the breed is famous/infamous for one-person loyalty and instinct to protect: person, possessions, etc.
Loki didn't approve of anyone approaching my desk when I was in the back shop where type was set, pages were composed and the press run. Anyone else would bring him to his feet, ears back, shoulder blades up, teeth bared . . . but silent. Even as a pup, he could be menacing. "Lupo siberiano," or Siberian wolf, was the Roman nickname for the breed.
Night messengers who brought engraved zinc plates — photos for every edition in that ancient era of hot type and flatbed press — quickly learned to avoid the newsroom and come directly into the back shop. Loki was a force to be accommodated.
Away from the office, he'd curl up on my Sunbeam Alpine's passenger seat and bite anyone who was silly enough to reach into the car in hopes of a quick theft.
He rarely let go before I returned and that could create Roman opera buffa. Loki's victim typically threatened to call police about my vicious dog and — without telling Loki to let go — I offered to help by shouting for police. We never did call for police. When released, the would-be thief unfailingly walked away, cursing me for enticing him with an open sports car into what he hoped was a crime of opportunity.
When I worked days, Loki stayed home nearby. His socialization didn't accommodate the chaos of a small, crowded newsroom with strangers coming and going.
Again, thanks for the reminder: fun, smart and god help us, mindful of Enquirer watchdog obligations.
• As anticipated here, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is following other Newhouse dailies by reducing home deliveries to three days a week: Sunday and two days to be named later. The PD says it will print seven days a week for street sales. It also plans to fire about a third of its newsroom staff. It's a sad demise of what long was Ohio's best daily.
• The Enquirer business section headline was "Survey: Downtown seen as more positive." That's also what the story said, based on what Downtown Cincinnati Inc. told the paper. The accompanying photo showed people playing in Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine. People feeling positive downtown just weren't photogenic.
• Read Gina Kolata's April 7 New York Times story on a new understanding of the role of red meat in heart trouble. It's among the best story telling in a long time. It's a complicated subject but she draws us in with researchers sitting down to sizzling sirloin breakfast "for the sake of science." It gets even better as she explains that the science involves "a little-studied chemical that is burped out by bacteria . . . " Talk about imagery. Send photos.
• NPR is killing its Monday-Thursday afternoon call-in show, Talk of the Nation, and we'll all be poorer for it. Talk of the Nation involves civil, lengthy discussion of timely topics. NPR is working with Boston's WBUR to create a program for Talk's 2-4 p.m. time slot. NPR says member stations wanted a program more like Morning Edition and All Things Considered in the afternoon and evening. Too bad. Expect lots of canned (and cheaply produced) interviews that seem to be the promise of the new show.
• Journalists should refuse to name sources to whom they've promised confidentiality. The corollary, of course, is to ask first whether we're willing to serve time for contempt of court if we reject a judge's demands that we break our word and name our source(s). In that sense, we probably don't think it will happen to us and almost mindlessly promise confidentiality to encourage sources to talk to us.
So when there is a court confrontation, the refusenik journalist typically is cast as the hero and the judge as a mindless apparatchik and/or tool of the prosecutor. That's too simple. Reporters are free to ask their sources to release them from their promise of confidentiality. Judges should compel testimony only when prosecutors have used every other way to identify reporters' sources and silence could pervert justice. Judges are on the hot seat as much as reporters.
The latest unresolved contest involves Jana Winter who quoted unnamed law enforcement personnel when she reported that Aurora, Colo., gunman James Holmes sent an incriminating notebook to his psychiatrist before massacring moviegoers. FoxNews.com's Winter said the notebook was filled with violent notes and drawings. Now that the apparently accurate information is out, I don't see how the sources' identities matter to a fair trial if there ever is one.
Rather, I like what Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, told the New York Times: "If you required reporters to disclose their sources every time there was a minor leak in a high profile criminal case, the jails would be filled in America with journalists."
• London's Daily Mail reports the auction of a log book kept by the RAF navigator whose "bouncing bomb" breached a vital German dam during World War II. The raid was portrayed in the film, The Dambusters. The Daily Mail's story was spoiled only by a photo of the unique bomb being dropped by a twin-engine plane; Dambusters flew four-engine Lancaster heavy bombers.
• Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is loathed to degrees that W and Obama cannot imagine. Her death last week sparked national demonstrations of joy even as the government and palace hoped that her almost-state funeral in London could be protected from demonstrators. Haters danced in the street, daubed "Rust in Hell" about the Iron Lady, and sang "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead." That forced BBC to decide whether to play that song from the Wizard of Oz movie on BBC radio shows dedicated to hit songs or on news programs about Thatcher's life and death. The song reportedly became No. 1 on iTunes before the funeral and it was headed for the top of the pop charts, pushed by Thatcher haters. At last report, BBC's director general said only a 5-second snippet would be allowed on the main radio channel. New to his job, he pissed off everyone.
• Patrice Lumumba was the Congo's first prime minister after Belgium granted independence to the huge, potentially wealthy and criminally unprepared colony. He was murdered not long before I began working on the Congo border in Northern Rhodesia. He already was a martyr-hero of the Left when I studied African anthropology in London.
Lumumba's abduction, torture and murder were popularly assumed to be a CIA operation, working with Belgians, rebels in copper-rich Katanga province, and others who coveted the Congo's mineral wealth and mines.
Now, a curious news story in London's Telegraph says Britain's worldwide Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) engineered Lumumba's death. More curious is the weight it gives to a second-hand source. It quotes Lord Lea of Crondall quoting Baroness (Daphne) Park of Monmouth, who was the senior MI6 officer in the Congo then, as saying she "organised it."
Lord Lea told the Telegraph, "It so happens that I was having a cup of tea with Daphne Park – we were colleagues from opposite sides of the Lords – a few months before she died in March 2010. She had been consul and first secretary in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, from 1959 to 1961, which in practice (this was subsequently acknowledged) meant head of MI6 there. I mentioned the uproar surrounding Lumumba's abduction and murder, and recalled the theory that MI6 might have had something to do with it. 'We did,' she replied, 'I organised it.'"
The Telegraph said Lord Lea claimed Baroness Park reasonably was concerned that Lumumba might be a communist siding with Soviet Russia. After all, African and Asian independence leaders like Lumumba, South Africa's Mandela and others often found their most active Cold War support mainly in Moscow and the wider Communist movement.
Initially blaming the CIA wasn't irrational. By Lumumba's death in 1961, the CIA had engineered the overthrow of elected governments in Iran and Guatemala and botched the Bay of Pigs invasion to topple Cuba's Fidel Castro.
Belgium apologized in 2002 for failing to prevent
Lumumba's death. In 2006, the Telegraph said, "documents showed the CIA
had plotted to assassinate him but the plot was abandoned."
Tea party activists are working to gather the 380,000 signatures needed to get the Ohio Workplace Freedom Act on the ballot. They have until July 3.
The Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the first of two right-to-work bills, both of which were passed by the state Senate last week. Gov. Rick Snyder has told multiple media outlets that he could sign the bills as early as Wednesday.
Michigan would be the 24th right-to-work state in the nation and the second in the Midwest. Indiana passed a similar law earlier this year.
Members of the Ohio House Democratic Caucus wore red carnations — Ohio's state flower and a symbol of the labor movement — at the Statehouse Tuesday to show support for Michigan workers.
"Put simply, so called 'right to work' is wrong. Statistics show states with this anti-working family legislation have lower wages and higher poverty rates," Ohio state Rep. Connie Pillich, D-Montgomery, wrote in an emailed statement.
"We will continue to stand together and fight against these unfair attacks on workers in Ohio, Michigan and across the country."
Despite the effort to put a right-to-work law on the ballot next year — a similar effort was unsuccessful in 2012 — it doesn't seem like Ohio is in any rush to join Michigan and Indiana.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Gov. John Kasich has higher priorities than passing a right-to-work law. The newspaper reports that Ohio added 127,000 jobs in the past two years and ranks fourth nationally and first in the Midwest in terms of job creation.
Kasich said the agenda for the last two years of his first term include tax cuts, an education overhaul and infrastructure improvement to keep the state competitive.
"I have an agenda that I think is going to benefit the state of Ohio," Kasich told the newspaper. "We're doing very well vis-a-vis the rest of the country now, and I think if we continue to pursue the agenda I have and the legislature has, I think we'll continue to be successful."
FUN FACT: Michigan's right-to-work bill will be signed into law in the Romney Building. George Romney, former Michigan governor and father of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was an opponent of right-to-work laws.
An investigation by nonprofit journalism group ProPublica has uncovered the identity of one of the secret super PACs funding advertisements attacking U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and promoting his challenger, Ohio state treasurer Josh Mandel.
The group is the Government Integrity Fund and is headed by Columbus lobbyist Tom Norris. Norris' lobbying firm Cap Square Solutions employs former Mandel aide Joe Ritter.
Ritter declined to comment to ProPublica about his role with Norris' lobbying firm or whether he is involved with the Government Integrity Fund.
The race between Brown and Mandel is considered vital to Republicans who want to take control of the Senate and Democrats who want to hold on to their majority. It has turned into Ohio's — and the nation's — most expensive race.
The Associated Press reported in August that outside groups — like the Government Integrity Fund — have spent $15 million supporting Mandel, while similar groups have spent $3 million for Brown.
It's unknown where the money is coming from because federal regulations and the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United case allow the groups to spend unlimited amounts of cash on political ads without disclosing their donors.
Such groups are classified as non-profit "social welfare" groups, which don't have to release donor information or register with the Federal Election Commission. They're supposed to be "primarily" engaged in promoting social welfare.
Super PACs aren't supposed to coordinate with campaigns, but it is common for them to hire politicians' former aides.
According to ProPublica, Ritter was first hired by Mandel as an aide when the candidate was in the Ohio Legislature. He was then the field director for Mandel's state treasurer campaign and then became a constituent and executive agency liaison when Mandel won that race. He left the treasurer's office after six months to work for Norris' lobbying firm.
Ritter was part of an ethics complaint filed after a Dayton Daily News investigation into Mandel's practice of hiring former campaign workers for state jobs. Ritter has contested the charges.
Norris' ties to the Government Integrity Fund was discovered by ProPublica through documents filed with Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT. The Federal Communication Commission requires TV stations to keep detailed records about political advertisers.


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"How much math do I need to know to program?" Not That Much, Actually.
Here are some posts I've seen on the r/learnprogramming subreddit forum:
- How much math do you need to become a good programmer?
- Should I brush up on math?
- This may be the dumbest question I have ever posted online. How much math does one actually need to be a good programmer?
Math and programming have a somewhat misunderstood relationship. Many people think that you have to be good at math or made good grades in math class before you can even begin to learn programming. But how much math does a person need to know in order to program?
Not that much actually. This article will go into detail about the kinds of math you should know for programming. You probably know it already.
For general programming, you should know the following:
- Addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication – And really, the computer will be doing the adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying for you anyway. You just have to know when you need to do these operations.
- Mod – The mod operation is the "remainder" and its sign is usually the % percent sign. So 23 divided by 7 is 3 with a remainder of 2. But 23 mod 7 is 2.
- The even/odd mod test trick – If you want to know if a number is odd or even, mod it by 2. If the result is 0, the number is even. If the result is 1, the number is odd. 23 mod 2 is 1, so you know 23 is odd. 24 mod 2 is 0, so you know 24 is even. If x mod 2 is 0, you know that whatever number is stored in the variable x is even.
- To get a percentage of a number, multiply that number by the percent number with the decimal point in front of it. So to get 54% of 279, multiple 0.54 * 279. This is why 1.0 often means 100% and 0.0 means 0%.
- Know what negative numbers are. A negative number times a negative number is a positive. A negative times a positive is negative. That's about it.
- Know what a Cartesian coordinate system is. In programming, the (0, 0) origin is the top left corner of the screen or window, and the Y axis increases going down.
- Know the Pythagorean theorem, and that it can be used to find the distance between two points on a Cartesian coordinate system. The Pythagorean theorem is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. What this usually means in programming is the distance between coordinate (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) will just be sqrt( (x1 – x2)^2 + (y1 – y2)^2 ).
- Know what decimal, binary, and hexadecimal numbering systems are. Decimal numbers are the numbers we're used to that have ten digits: 0 to 9. It's commonly thought that humans develop this system because we have ten fingers and counted on our fingers.
Computers work with binary data, which is a number system with only two digits: 0 and 1. This is because we build computers out of electronics components where it's cheaper to make them only recognize two different states (one state to represent 0 and the other to represent 1).
The numbers are still the exact same, but they are written out differently because there are a different number of digits in each system. Because hex has 6 more digits than the 0-9 numerals can provide, we use the letters A through F for the digits above 9. The easiest way to show these number systems is with an odometer. The following three odometers always show the same number, but they are written out differently in different number systems:
See the Odometer Number Systems page in a new window.
You don't even have to know the math of converting a number from one number system to another. Every programming language has functions that can do this for you.
(On a side note, hexadecimal is used because one hexadecimal digit can represent exactly four binary digits. So since 3 in hex represents 0011 in binary and A in hex represents 1010. This has the nice effect that the hex number 3A (which is 58 in decimal) is written in binary as 00111010. Hex is used in programming because it is a shorthand for binary. Nobody likes writing out all those ones and zeros.)
And that's about it. Other than the number system stuff, you probably already knew all the math you needed to know to do programming. Despite the popular conception, math isn't really used that much in programming. You would need to know math in order to write programs that do, say, earthquake simulators. But that's more about needing to know math for earthquakes rather than needing to know math for programming an earthquake simulator.
Advanced Mathematics in Some Areas of Programming
There's a few areas of programming where some additional math knowledge might be needed (but for 95% of the software you'll write, you don't need to know it.)
3D games and 3D graphics – 3D stuff will usually involve knowing trigonometry and linear algebra (that is, math dealing with matrices). Of course, there are many 3D graphics libraries that implement all this math programming for you, so you don't need to know the math.
2D physics (like Angry Birds) and 3D physics (like many popular 3D games use) – To do programming that involves physics, you'll need to learn some physics equations and formulas (specifically mechanics, which is the type of physics with springs, gravity, and balls rolling down inclined planes.) However, there are several physics engines and software libraries that implement this stuff for you, so you really don't need to know the physics equations to make a game like Angry Birds.
Cryptography – And really, by cryptography, I just mean RSA. In which case, you'd have to learn some math about how prime numbers work and doing the Greatest Common Divisor (which is a dead simple algorithm, although plenty of programming languages have gcd() function that does this for you.) Other encryption ciphers are mostly moving data around in specific steps. For example, this Flash animation shows the steps in the AES "Rijndael" cipher. All the steps are basically substituting numbers for other numbers, shifting rows of numbers over, mixing up columns of numbers, and doing basic addition with numbers.
And that's just if you want to write your own encryption ciphers (which you shouldn't do, because there are already plenty of good ones and without expertise your cipher will probably suck and be easily cracked.) If you just want to write a program that encrypts data, there are software libraries that implement encryption and decryption functions already.
So even for the above situations, you don't need to know the math to make programs with 3D graphics, physics, or encryption. Just learn to use the libraries.
What You Do Need to Learn to Do Programming
What you do need to learn is how to model data and devise algorithms. This basically means, how to take some real-world calculation or some data processing, and write out code that makes the computer do it. For example, in the game Dungeons and Dragons the characters and monsters have several different statistics for combat:
- HP, or hit points, is the amount of damage a person can take before dying. More HP means you can take more damage before dying.
- AC, or armor class, is a measure of the chance your armor has of blocking an attack. The lower the AC, the more protective the armor is.
- THAC0 (pronounced "thay-co"), or "To Hit Armor Class 0", is a measure of how skillful the person is at making a successful hit on an opponent. The lower the THAC0, the more accurate the person's attack is.
- The damage of the weapon is written out as something like 1d6+2. This means the damage is the amount from rolling 1 six-sided dice, and then adding 2 to it. A damage stat of 2d4 would be rolling 2 four-sided dice and adding them together. (Dungeons and Dragons uses 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20-sided dice.)
To see if an attacker hits a defender, the attacker rolls a twenty-sided die. If this number is equal to or greater than the attacker's THAC0 minus the defender's AC, then the hit is successful and the defender takes damage. Otherwise, the defender has either dodged or blocked the attack and takes no damage.
Let's take two Dungeon and Dragons characters, Alice and Bob, with the following stats:
- Alice: HP 14, AC 5, THAC0 18, DAMAGE 1d6
- Bob: HP 12, AC 7, THAC0 16, DAMAGE 2d4
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When night falls in Rangoon, the city's spectacular decay—patches of black mold devouring the yellowed walls of colonial buildings, trees growing wildly into crumbling third-story terraces—nearly disappears from view. The tea shops fill up, locals crowd the bookstalls on Pansodan Road, and the city, which seems furtive and depressed by day, becomes a communal stage. In the Chinatown district, two men in an alley crank out schoolbooks with a hand-operated printing press. At a sidewalk fish market, women sell shrimp, scallops, and squid by candlelight, while two teen-agers nearby strum guitars. Further east, along the Rangoon River, in the old residential quarter of Pazundaung, the wooden houses are open to the street, like storefronts, revealing an old woman sitting on a couch, a living-room shrine strewn with votive candles, and two men laughing as they listen to a radio.
One such evening in June, I had dinner at an outdoor restaurant north of downtown with a young man I'll call Myat Min. He grew up in a working-class township on the outskirts of Rangoon, the son of a mechanic and a woman who sold spices from Thailand. His father had been trained by British Air Force officers, and in the years after the 1962 coup, which gave control of the country to the Burmese military, he kept the family radio tuned to the BBC. Each evening, he ate fried noodles, listened to the news in English, and cursed the dictatorship.
Over the decades, the Burmese government has subjected its citizens to epic misrule, systematically destroying every institution of society except the Army, whose leaders have made staying in power their overriding goal. The streets of Rangoon and Mandalay are monitored by the secret police and by a group of armed thugs known as Swan Arr Shin—the Masters of Force. Dissidents are routinely tortured. The generals' irrational economic policies have reduced one of Asia's richest countries, once the world's leading exporter of rice, to penury. Burma's gross domestic product per capita is now less than half that of its neighbor Cambodia. Economic sanctions—a form of protest against the government's human-rights abuses—have made the country even poorer.
Myat Min was not quite thirty when we met, with a dark, high-cheekboned face, but he had the manner of a much older, eccentric man who had seen too much of life and was too vital to be self-effacing, even if his repressive society demanded it. He had an unusually loud voice by Burmese standards, which drew looks in public, and a laugh that often couldn't stop. The American expatriates in Rangoon called him Mr. Intensity. He wore only longyis, the Burmese sarong; he didn't own any pants. "I hate modern life," he said.
In 1995, when he was sixteen, Myat Min noticed a collection of stories by W. Somerset Maugham in a bookstall on Pansodan Road. He rented it (few Burmese can afford to buy books) and read the stories with such strong identification that he began calling himself Somerset. He moved on to Dickens, learning not just to read English but to speak it, sometimes with oddly Victorian cadences. I asked him why these British writers appealed to him. "All of the characters are me," he said, with a boisterous laugh. "Neither a British nor an American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can! I am living in a Dickensian atmosphere. Our country is at least one or two centuries behind the Western world. My neighborhood—bleak, poor, with small domestic industries, children playing in the street, parents fighting with each other, some with great debt, everyone dirty—that is Dickens. I am more equipped to understand Dickens than modern novels. I don't know what is air-conditioning, what is subway, what is fingerprint exam."
In 1988, when Myat Min was ten, Rangoon and other Burmese cities filled with millions of demonstrators calling for an end to military rule. It was a revolutionary moment, and by far the most serious challenge to the reign of the generals; the protest led by monks last September is the only event that comes close. Myat Min's older brothers disappeared from home for several months to join the uprising, and his father went looking for them every day. At the height of the demonstrations, Myat Min sneaked out of his house. He saw a mob of people, some of whom were carrying spikes on which the severed heads of informers—burned charcoal black—had been impaled. "Democracy!" the people shouted.
"I became interested in politics because of those scenes," Myat Min told me. At home, his father said, "Aung San Suu Kyi is the new leader of our country. American troops will come liberate us." But Suu Kyi—the daughter of the general who led Burma to independence, in 1948, and who became an accidental heroine to the protesters in 1988—was soon placed under house arrest, on the shore of Inya Lake, in the middle of the city. She has for the most part remained there ever since, in an isolation as profound as her country's.
Myat Min decided to pursue his passion for English literature at Rangoon University; he dreamed of a life immersed in ideas, "like walking through the forest in the dead of night." But by 1996, the year he enrolled, the university had almost ceased to exist. To prevent students from gathering in protest, the government repeatedly closed the main campus and began busing undergraduates to makeshift campuses outside the capital. The semester dwindled to ten days in the classroom, with assignments and exams handled through the mail. In order to maintain the illusion of a successful system, the government continued to pass large numbers of students, even though their base of knowledge was shrinking precipitately. Higher education in Burma, once the training ground of a skilled civil service, was destroyed.


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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. 254948CA Loan No. 0017710054 Title Order No. 1011795YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 09-06-2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 05-30-2012 at 11:00 AM, CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded 09-20-2006, Book N/A, Page N/A, Instrument 2006-0008340, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of PLUMAS County, California, executed by: BILLY G. MARRS AND SHERLENE MARRS, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (MERS) ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, ENCORE CREDIT CORP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS., as Beneficiary, will sell at public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a cashier's check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a cashier's check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Sale will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Place of Sale: THE MAIN STREET ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 520 MAIN STREET , QUINCY, CA Legal Description: LOT 10 IN BLOCK 6 OF THE EXTENSION TO RIVERWOOD ADDITION TO CHESTER, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF FILED OCTOBER 11, 1960 IN THE PLUMAS COUNTY RECORDER OFFICES AND OF RECORD IN MAP BOOK 2, AT PAGES 28. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $298,251.88 (estimated) Street address and other common designation of the real property: 282 MAYWOOD DRIVE CHESTER, CA 96020 APN Number: 100-281-001-000 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". In compliance with California Civil Code 2923.5(c) the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent declares: that it has contacted the borrower(s) to assess their financial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclosure; or that it has made efforts to contact the borrower(s) to assess their financial situation and to explore options to avoid foreclosure by one of the following methods: by telephone; by United States mail; either 1st class or certified; by overnight delivery; by personal delivery; by e-mail; by face to face meeting. DATE: 05-03-2012 CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY, as Trustee BRENDA BATTEN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY IS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. California Reconveyance Company 9200 Oakdale Avenue Mail Stop: CA2-4379 Chatsworth, CA 91311 800-892-6902 For Sales Information: (714) 730-2727 or www.lpsasap.com (714) 573-1965 or www.priorityposting.com THE FOLLOWING NOTICES APPLY TO PROPERTIES CONTAINING ONE TO FOUR SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES ONLY. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, this information can be obtained from one of the following two companies: LPS Agency Sales & Posting at (714) 730-2727, or visit the Internet Web site www.lpsasap.com (Registration required to search for sale information) or Priority Posting & Publishing at (714) 573-1965 or visit the Internet Web site www.priorityposting.com (Click on the link for "Advanced Search" to search for sale information), using the Trustee Sale No. shown above. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. A-4233375 05/09/2012, 05/16/2012, 05/23/2012
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Loan: Carr Other: 6428702 File: PFI-110218 SMW Investor Loan #: A.P. Number: See Legal Description NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED September 17, 2002. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that Placer Foreclosure, Inc., as trustee, or successor trustee, or substituted trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by Steven T. St. Clair, Trustee of the Steven T. St. Clair Trust dated November 25, 1997 Recorded on 09/24/2002 as Instrument No. 2002-0009496 in Book Page of Official Records, in the office of the County Recorder of Plumas County, California, and pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded 01/05/2012 in Book, Page as Instrument No. 2012-0000077 of said Official Records, will SELL on 05/08/2012 at the front entrance to the county courthouse, 520 Main Street, Quincy, CA at 9:30 A.M. AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at time of sale In lawful money of the United States) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said county and State hereafter described: See Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof. Exhibit "A" The Land Referred To Is Situated In The State Of California, County Of Plumas, (Unincorporated Area) And Is Described As Follows: All That Portion Of The East 1/2 Of Section 5, Township 28 North, Range 7 East, MDM, Lying Above The 4500 Foot Contour Line Of Lake Almanor Pacific Gas And Electric Company Datum, Excepting Therefrom That Certain Right Of Way And Easement For State Highway 36 Described In The Final Order Of Condemnation Recorded In The Office Of The Plumas County Recorder, State Of California, On August 28, 1929 In Volume 62 Of Deeds, At Page 118. Also Excepting Therefrom That Portion Thereof Described In Deed To Helen Lubin Bridges, Alias, Recorded April 21, 1977 In Book 268, Official Records, At Page 520, Plumas County Records. Also Excepting Therefrom That Portion Lying Within The Southern Addition To The Town Of Chester, According To The Official Map Filed September 5, 1911 In Book A Of Maps At Page 9 In The Office Of The Plumas County Recorder, State Of California. Also Excepting Therefrom That Portion Lying Southwesterly Of The Centerline Of The Feather River. APN: 100-340-017 APN: 100-340-018 APN: 100-460-004 APN: 100-460-005. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 9456 and 9457 Highway 36, Chester, CA 96020. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $1,528,145.15. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee's Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter or right. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed, advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid balance of the Note secured by said Deed with interest thereon as provided in said Note, fees, charges and expenses of the trustee and the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. Dated: 04/09/2012 Placer Foreclosure, Inc., as said Trustee South Creek Business Park, 12190 Herdal Drive, Auburn, CA 95603, (530) 888-8411, By: Shannon Winford Trustee Sale Officer, Placer Foreclosure, Inc., Trustee. For Sale Information Call TAC: 714-480-5690. Directions May Be Obtained Pursuant To A Written Request Submitted To The Beneficiary C/O Placer Foreclosure, Inc., 12190 Herdal Dr., Suite 9, Auburn, Ca 95603, Within 10 Days Of The First Publication Of This Notice. Placer Foreclosure, Inc. Is A Debt Collector Attempting To Collect A Debt And Any Information Obtained Will Be Used For That Purpose. TAC: 955686 PUB: 4/18 4/25 5/02/12
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In the secret, unpublished, clandestine Appellate Court Ruling of Fabian, et. al v Vollkommer MN A10-1205 (http://goo.gl/da5cy )the Minnesota District, Appellate and Supreme Courts have ruled that Minnesota lawyers do not have the legal requirement to treat their clients ethically. Paraphrasing a portion of the ruling, the Minnesota District, Appellate and Supreme Court ruled that the "Minnesota Lawyers' Code of Professional Conduct is not an implied covenant in any legal services contract between a Minnesota Lawyer and their client".
Under the Signature of Chief Justice Gildea, the Minnesota Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of ruling that shatters the Rule of Law in Minnesota and voids every citizen's Natural Law Right to Due Process.( http://goo.gl/alqA6 ) (Chief Justice Lorie Skjevern Gildea was appointed by Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2006)
For most citizens, in matters of law it is of paramount importance that their counsel's duty to treat them ethically be held inviolate. The laws have unnecessarily yet deliberately been written in a convoluted and complex manner that few common citizens can hope to understand., let alone represent themselves in a court of law. By acts imperceptible to the average citizen, their own lawyer can determine the outcome of a case by, for example, failing to put evidence on the official record or allowing the other party to put evidence on the record that would appropriately be objected to. These and other "maneuvers" that can almost invisibly influence the outcome litigation demand that lawyers be legally bound to treat their clients ethically, lest they be tempted by bribe, political consideration or pressure of a judge to do otherwise.
Sans any legitimate reason being provided by the Minnesota Judiciary, can their be any doubt as to the intent of this A10-1205 ruling. That intent being to allow lawyers to "legally" collude with judges and other lawyers to fix the outcome of Court Cases?
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A 10-second maximal sprint after moderate-intensity exercise reduces the risk of post-exercise hypoglycemia in young, otherwise healthy patients with type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Paul A. Fournier from University of Western Australia, Crawley, stated that, "It is our view that the effect of sprinting on reducing the risk of post-exercise hypoglycemia is probably not as marked in children and sedentary middle-age individuals with type 1 diabetes, in part, due to their reduced capacity to engage in a maximal sprint effort."
Dr. Fournier and colleagues investigated whether a short (10-second) maximal sprint could counter the continual decline in glycemia during recovery from moderate-intensity exercise in seven men, who were an average of 21 years old, with type 1 diabetes.
After 20 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise, the subjects experienced a rapid and significant decrease in blood glucose levels, the authors report Increased epinephrine and norepinephrine levels returned to pre-exercise levels within 5 minutes after the 10-second sprint, the researchers note, whereas catecholamine levels remained elevated when exercise was followed by rest.
Growth hormone and cortisol levels increased when exercise was followed by a maximal sprint, report indicates, whereas increases were not seen when exercise was followed by rest.
Insulin levels showed similar patterns after sprint and after rest.
"This study provided the first evidence that a short maximal sprint effort performed immediately after moderate-intensity exercise is preferable to only resting as a means to counter a further fall in glycemia after exercise, thus decreasing the risk of early post-exercise hypoglycemia in individuals with type 1 diabetes," the authors conclude.
"On this basis," the investigators write, "one might tentatively recommend that after exercise of moderate intensity, young individuals with complication-free type 1 diabetes consider performing a short 10-second sprint to counter a further fall in their blood glucose level...particularly if a source of dietary carbohydrate is not readily available."
"Although the use of a 10-second sprint constitutes a novel and simple approach to decrease the risk of post-exercise hypoglycemia that will revolutionize blood glucose management in type 1 diabetes," Dr. Fournier said, "it would be premature and irresponsible at this stage to advocate its widespread adoption, because much more research is required to identify the target population of type 1 diabetic patients likely to be responsive."
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The Tennerton United Methodist Church honoree of the month for September is Mary Myers. She is being recognized as a faithful attendee and honored for her commitment.
Myers has participated in Sunday school and worship since 1972. Her children also participated in Sunday school and youth activities as youngsters.
Myers is occasionally a greeter for worship services. She enjoys helping with apple butter making day and the annual fall festival in October. She helps provide food for the fourth Sunday lunches and other activities.
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The New Robber Barons is an anthology of Janet Tavakoli's original chiefly
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thought process. Some background was repeated in commentaries so that they
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 3, 2013 – In support of #GivingTuesday, the official opening of the giving season, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) and its employees have teamed up with GiveCorps in an effort to make Baltimore the most generous city in America. #GivingTuesday is a nation-wide effort by GiveCorps to encourage charitable giving and volunteer efforts, in the spirit of the holiday season. BGE will match each and every monetary gift, dollar-for-dollar, that its employees make to various nonprofit organizations as part of #GivingTuesday. In addition, BGE employees supported #GivingTuesday by lending their skills to GiveCorps at volunteer events throughout Baltimore City today.
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We all saw it. Brett Favre: Knee Hunter. Whether it was an intentional (foul?) shot at the knees or not, it looked plenty dirty, and in today's knee-jerk world, that's almost enough for a guilty verdict, regardless of Favre's history of non-dirty play. For what it's worth, Favre did apologize after the game, although, I think his words might have fallen on deaf ears, at least in regards to the player Favre went unnecessarily low on, Eugene Wilson.
"I don't have too much to say about it," Wilson said. "I didn't speak to him about it, to see if it was on purpose or not." Asked what he would say to Favre, Wilson said: "What was up with that? Seriously, what was up with that?" Wilson then admitted that the conversation wouldn't have been that cordial. "I'm being a little nicer than I probably would've been out there if I spoke to him," he said.
Wilson said he thinks his knee will be OK and that it doesn't appear to be too serious right now. Asked if he wanted to return and take a shot at Favre, Wilson responded: "No comment."
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